Creative Ways for Businesses to Use Valentine's Day to Show Appreciation

Valentine's Day is traditionally a day to celebrate the most important relationships in your life. As a marketer, sales employer or firm owner, who is more important to your firm than your customers and employees? Businesses both large and small are using Valentine's Day to appreciate and nurture their most important relationships. Even the smallest gestures can make an impact on your important firm connections.

Follow these easy tips to show appreciation to those who most affect your bottom line this Valentine's Day.

Customer Appreciation - Your firm is only as strong as the loyalty of your customers. In order to build continuing association with your customers, your firm must show that you are willing to go the extra mile to keep your customers happy, as you know they could in fact pick someone else firm to do firm with. Show your customers how much you value your association with them and strike them with cupid's arrow this February.

• Send a Thank you Mailing - simply saying thank you can in fact go a long way. Send a thank you note with a mail-able promotional item such as a heart-shaped letter opener (thanks for your openness with us), pen (you're the ink to our paper) or flat flashlight (you light up our business) as a uncomplicated and uncostly way to show appreciation to your clients.

• Hold a Valentine's Open House - invite your top customers to an open house at your office. Make it as uncomplicated as a continental breakfast or as fancy as a cocktail party. Give out umbrellas to all in attendance to show them that you have them covered all year long.

• create a Gift with purchase program - Make the whole month of February special for customers by implementing a gift with purchase program. Give out grocery totes, computer bags, or the hottest technology item for all customers who place an order in the month of February.

Employee Recognition - Employees are the backbone of your business. Straight through their hard work, your reputation is strengthened every day. Enhancing employee delight and morale is an important factor in every business, and sometimes the little things make a big difference. Show your employees a little love this Valentine's Day.

• Throw a Valentine Lunch - convention your employees together and taking the time to thank them can in fact boost morale. Order lunch in for your team and hand out lunch coolers or voyage mugs as an appreciation gift for their hard work.

• dispose a Scavenger Hunt - Give the office a break and hold a scavenger hunt for employees. create fun clues to find Valentine-related objects in the office. Give the winner a gift card to a local restaurant, and give all who participated in the hunt heart-shaped desk accessories to remember the experience.

• Give out Goodie Bags - If you don't have much time or your firm doesn't allow for a lunch or scavenger hunt, simply give out Valentine goodie bags with imprinted heart chocolates or inserted into a ceramic mug to employees. Have executives hand them out and contain a hand written thank you note with each.

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